Heritage Report: Study of Heritage Sites and their Contribution to Tourism

This heritage report focuses on the study of various heritage sites around the world and their contribution to the tourism industry. It explores the attraction of tourists, revenue generation, and the importance of heritage interpretation media. The report also delves into the history and significance of popular heritage spots like the Science Museum and Tate Modern in London.

Heritage Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Heritage report is the report about the different heritage sites across the world which
further contributes the high amount of revenue into the economy of company. This includes the
attraction of tourist towards this site and thus tourist from different countries travel to visit the
heritage sites. Heritage report includes the complete study about the particular heritage spot in
the country.
Science Museum is the major tourist attraction in the London. It was established in 1857.
The Museum is designed by the Sir Richard Allison. It is the part of Science Museum Group.
London Museum represents history of United Kingdom from the Prehistoric to modern times.
Located in the London city. It was established in the 1976 as the part of Barbican Estate. The
architecture of this museum are Hidalgo Mayo and Philip Powell. It is the gallery of art which
was established in 2000 at United Kingdom, London. Due to increase in its popularity among the
public for its amazing art items and the architect of the building. There is no fee is charged for
the entrance of the art gallery. The report includes the variety of heritage interpretation media at
the sites and their contribution for the visitors' attraction.
MAIN BODY
Museum of London-
The London Museum represent UK's history of city capital from Prehistoric times to
modern times period. The Museum of London is situated at London. The museum is obsessed
with London's social history and their habitants. The Museum of London is paid and monitored
by the Authority of Greater London and Corporation of London City (Budak and et.al.,2019).
Museum contains the biggest collection of urban history along with six million objects. Museum
has declared to plan for moving to the Barbican site to the close site Smithfield market in March
2015. Plan is estimated to £70 million and which will be completed till 2021. It was established
in December 1976 as that was the part of Barbican Estate. Architect of Museum was Hidalgo
Moya and Philip Powell. They had designed the Museum with the innovative approach so that
galleries are laid out in the form so there is single route for museum- from the period of
prehistoric galleries to the galleries of modern art(Hayhoe and Carrisoza, 2019). The museum
contains chronological range of galleries that includes the real artefacts, pictures, model and
diagram, along with strong emphasis on the discoveries of archaeological discoveries, built city,
London's cultural & social life, urban development, along with the interactive activities and
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display for all the ages in London. At outside the London Museum wall the Fragment of Roman
has been sculptured. The Museum was transformed in May 2010 with redevelopment of £20
million which is the biggest ever investment done for the Museum since 1976 (Ravankhah,
Schmidt and Will, 2017). Modification includes the new four galleries. New gallery of city is
featured as large street level window with the London Wall. 7,000 objects are displayed there in
the Museum. The gallery “Expanding City” contains 1660s to 1850 period, along with “People's
City” addresses the 1850 to 1940s which includes the “Victorian Walk” by recreating buildings
and shops, and World War I,sections on West end, World War II, Suffragettes and everyday life.
Entry at the museum is free but some events and exhibition at the Museum are charged (Labadi,
2017). Museum is child friendly and there are daily programs of events and activities from live
music performance are conducted and late night watching for adults to the crafts and arts and the
theatre performances for the child. It told the narrative of city of London and their peoples. There
are two million objects in their collection and thus attracts 400,000 visitors yearly. The London
Museum grasp largest archive for archaeological among the Europe. Museum has also
successfully completed it campaigns on November 2017 “Art Happens” which is helpful in
conversing and redressing with gardens, gallery which are permanent whose exhibit is divine by
the Pleasure Gardens Vauxhall in their peak. Thus, media is largely attracted towards the
Museum and thus this is helpful in gaining the interest of the public to the Museum (MILLER,
2016). The Museum has large visitors to Museum and centre of attraction in the city.
Museum of Science in London-
The Museum of Science in London is main museum on the Exhibition Road in the
London, South Kensington. The Museum was supported in 1857. Today it is the major tourist
attraction of London city, which attracts over 3.3 billion of visitors yearly. No entry fee is
charged by the Museum to their visitors. The Museum is funded by the Publicly donated museum
museums in UK. Museum of Science in London is the portion of Museum Science group which
is merged with industry of Museum and Science in 2012, Manchester. One half of Brain of
Charles Babbage's is also been displayed at the Museum (Sesana and et.al., 2019). The Museum
includes machinery collection which has become the Museum of Patents in 1858 and the Patent
Office Museum in 1863. Science Museum is designed by the Sir Richard Allison. The Museum
holds he group of 300,000 items, which includes the famed items as Puffing Billy, Stephenson's
Rocket, the Apollo 10 command module, The first jet engine, James Watson's' model of DNA,
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reconstruction of Francis Crick, some of the earliest steam engines , documentation of first type
writer and working example of Charles Babbage's brain. There are hundreds of interactive which
are exhibits (Cameron and Rössler, 2016). The recent addition is the IMAX 3D Cinema which
shows the nature and science documentaries, in which most of them are in 3D and Wellcome
Wing which directly focus on the digital technology. The Science Museum London is featured at
the seven floor of entertaining and educational exhibitions. Wellcome Wing showcases the
developments in medicines, contemporary science and technology. Medical history treasure is
also carried out by the Medical history galley in the Museum (Barthel-Bouchier, 2016). Pattern
Pod in the Museum introduces under-eights to important patterns in contemporary science and
whereas the Launch Pad is popular hands-on gallery where children can easily explore the basic
scientific principles. The oldest clocks and watches in the world which are 1250 in number are
exhibits at the museum from the date 1600 to 1850. Museum in-house IMAX cinema shows
scientific films which are in 3D, that allows the large number of visitors which helps them in
surrounded by the depth of ocean. Ticket starts from £11 for the adults and £9 for the children. It
is the largest screen in the whole United Kingdom. It widely attracts the large number of visitors
towards its iconic objects, incredible stories of the achievements of science and the award-
winning exhibition. The museum highlights from world of science along with various interactive
stations for adults and children. The Museum is well suited for the family visit (Battiste, 2016).
Museum contains with a large crowd of visitors over the weekend. Specially at interactive
stations and fee-based 3D screening films. This is all largely attracts the tourist across the world
to visit their and explore the amazing experience at the museum with the family and children.
Tate Modern -
It is a modern art gallery which is situated at London and it is a national gallery of
Britain for international modern art in UK and contains the national collection of Arts of the
British, contemporary art and international modern art from 1990 until present day (Blake,2018).
Tate Modern is the biggest museums within the world for the contemporary and modern art.
There are no entry fees charged by the visitors for seeing the collections display, which cover the
major part of the gallery space. And hence the tickets are to paid for the major temporary
exhibitions. There are huge number of visitors who visit the museum, which is approximately 5.8
million visitors per year (Guzmán, Roders and Colenbrander, 2017). The Tate Modern is house
which is situated at the former Power Stations at Bankside and has been designed by Sir Giles
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Gilbert Scott. Exhibitions displays covers the main collection consisting the 8 areas which are
named theme or subject. It is the most important Britain's new cultural building since creation of
Royal National Theatre in 1976 and Britain Library in 1998, Switch House at Tate Modern is the
prominent addition to the cultural heritage of the city London. It is 64.5 meters high tower which
creates the 60% extra space for exhibition within the London gallery. Since 2000 it has become a
major tourist attraction in the London. It attracts the large tourist with its amazing art gallery
collection (Ang, 2019). Its interior includes the overground and underground galleries, along
with the new roof terrace offering in the city view. During the entrance of the Museum is from
the three side so the visitors can en-tree building and Turbine hall from West, North and also
from the South side. This art gallery was opened in 2000 and with short tie period it had become
the most visited site in London. The rolling programme of installations and exhibitions are kept
the capital grow yearly. Every year different artist attracts the large number of visitors so that the
Turbine Hall is filled with the audience (Avrami and et.al., 2019). Day by day it is becoming
more popular so for the expansion of the gallery more space is created in the building. The major
development which was made in the Tate Modern is the Switch House which opened in 2016 and
this offers the more exhibition space, space for live art performance and a view for the tower.
This the tourist are majorly attracted to the art gallery and enjoys the tremendous art galleries at
the place around the world. The art gallery building is also the major tourist attraction which
allow the visitors to see the building architecture with its specified creativity in the building
(Little and Shackel, 2016). Many more events and exhibitions will be further announced in the
year 2019 which will attracts the large number of people to see the art gallery. It is the
tremendous experience for the traveller.
CONCLUSION
It can be summarised from the above study that heritage sites are the main media
attraction now s days and thus more media coverage attracts wide range of tourists from the
world to visit the heritage sites. This somehow contributes to the economy of the country which
is helpful in the development, growth and infrastructure of the country. More and more tourists
are attracted towards this prescribed heritage sites. The heritage sites are major tourism attraction
which allows the country to give employment to many more other businesses. Individual can
learn many more things from the heritage sites and can avail through the history of that country
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which is helpful in gaining the knowledge about the country and its heritage sites. Tourist
attraction is majorly diverted towards these sites because of the lot of media coverage which help
the country in attracting many visitors to the heritage sites. The government is emphasizing more
and more in the development of these sites and free entry is provided to the visitors so that they
can avail through the heritage spots. Tourism contributes a huge amount of revenue to the every
country’s economy it is the major source of income in the particular country.
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